Campus News

Humboldt State University continued its trend of obtaining increased private gift and grant revenues, receiving $6,319,398 during the 2010-11 fiscal year. This figure represents a 6.7 percent increase over the previous year’s total.

Last spring, senior business students formed Humboldt State Business Consulting; a class run like a business, as part of Professor Nancy Vizenor’s Small Business Consulting Class, or BA 417. This fall, the current group of students will work with their first clients.

Humboldt State has a new mobile version of its online events calendar, Humboldt State Events. The new mobile version will make it easier to keep up with campus while you're on the run.

Humboldt State University's 13th annual Campus Dialogue on Race will explore From (In) Equality to Equity in Education Oct. 27 to Nov. 9.

Imagine your heart race as your front tire skids through the muddy terrain. You keep a tight grip onto your handlebars and release the brakes as you peddle faster through the dirt and around the ferns. As the cycler behind you gains momentum, you focus on the finish line and peddle faster than you’ve ever peddled.

Since hitting the market in 2003, personal locator beacons have saved hundreds of people from life threatening wilderness situations. The satellite-linked emergency devices alert search and rescue teams to the precise location of a person in danger and can often mean the difference between life and death.

Wednesday evenings at 5:30, students gather together in East Nelson Hall classroom 115. They begin by introducing their name, major and a sexual organ or reference that begins with the first letter of their name. That’s one of the strategies the Society of Women in Math and Sciences (SWIMS) use to learn each other’s names and begin their weekly club meetings.

Humboldt State University Provost Robert Snyder has appointed Dr. Rebecca S. Brown Director of the HSU International Center.

Bring your Jack axes and team spirit to the Main Gym Thursday at 7 p.m. on October 27 for a pep rally to pump up HSU athletes for a weekend full of games.

_The following was provided by the CSU Chancellor's Office_ h3. Online Learning Initiative Moving Forward “CSU Online,” an online learning initiative that will address California’s expanding workforce needs and increase access to high quality education, is making progress with the recruitment of an executive director. The new executive director will work closely with faculty, staff and administrators at all the campuses in executing the vision for the online learning initiative ensuring the project continues in a broad-based, collaborative manner.

Humboldt State’s Telonicher Marine Lab in Trinidad is wrapping up a year and a half long $350,000 renovation of its wet lab and public display area funded by alumni, grants and private donations.

Nurses on the North Coast will be able to continue their education and earn a Bachelor or Master of Science in Nursing (BSN or MSN) degree under a new partnership between California State University, San Bernardino and Humboldt State University.

Award winning National Geographic photographer Charles “Flip” Nicklin will speak at Humboldt State University’s Van Duzer Theatre October 26 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Humboldt State University is one of some 160 colleges and universities statewide that have registered to join in the Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 10:20 a.m.

The lacrosse players darted from the sidelines, taking their positions under the bright lights at Redwood Bowl.

Female athletic participation continues to grow at Humboldt State University, according to a recent report on gender equity in athletics released by the California State University (CSU).

Two Humboldt State alumni and two students recently teamed up to create a series of videos highlighting the work of the Small Business Development Centers of Northern California, a national program that helps local entrepreneurs and small businesses succeed.

At HSU, new concussion research is asking people to take a page out of Johnny Cash’s songbook and “walk the line.” While Cash kept a close eye on his heart, students working with the North Coast Concussion Program at Humboldt State are keeping a close eye on the head, specifically head injuries.

As midterms approach, students might start thinking there isn’t a life outside of textbooks and laptops. Humboldt State’s Learning Center is there to help shoulder the load with expanded services including a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week online tutoring service.

For Rangeland Resource major Jasmine Westbrook, a love for the range has been with her since she was a child, raised on her parents Napa Valley sheep ranch. The recent recipient of the Paul J. Zinke Memorial Scholarship for students studying soils management, Westbrook is using the award to fund her senior project, which consists of comparing vitamin and mineral deficiencies in sheep to vitamin and mineral analysis in the vegetation and soil from pastures they graze in.

Humboldt State University’s Student Veterans Association will inaugurate its annual Veterans Day 5K Run/Walk on Friday, Nov. 11 to raise funds for the university’s Office of Veterans Enrollment and Transition Services (VETS). Participants will depart from Redwood Bowl at 11 a.m.

Award-winning Berkeley Mathematics Professor Kenneth Ribet will deliver the 58th Harry S. Kieval Lecture on Sunday evening, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science B building, Room 135, sponsored by Humboldt State University’s Department of Mathematics.

Leaving the cynical city (and its cynical musicals) behind, two men from New York drift out of cell phone range into the Scottish highlands, where they discover an enchanted village that lives only for a day every 100 years, called Brigadoon. There they find new love and a different way to live. But can the magic last, and if it’s lost, can it be found again?

Humboldt State University will start groundwork Friday, Oct. 14 for the campus share of the 2011 fundraising drive of United Way of the Wine Country for the Humboldt/Del Norte region.

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